Howard Berry, father of former staff sergeant Joshua Berry, is pushing a bill that would deem the 2009 Fort Hood shooting 'a terrorist attack.'

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Deirdre Shesgreen
| dshesgreen@enquirer.com

Howard Berry has no doubt about what drove his 36-year-old son to commit suicide on Feb. 13 at his apartment in Landen, Ohio.

Joshua Berry, a former staff sergeant, suffered "severe" post-traumatic stress disorder, his father said. It was not from his time on the battlefield in Afghanistan, he said, but from a horrific attack Joshua survived at home: the 2009 shooting at Fort Hood, in which Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan killed or wounded more than 40 people. Joshua Berry - who had just returned from Afghanistan and was preparing to return to Cincinnati - was injured in the attack; he separated his ...